Middle East|It is suspected that tens of thousands of phone calls were made from Israel, urging people to leave their homes. According to the authorities, it is “psychological warfare”.
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Israel’s attacks on Lebanon on Monday killed hundreds and wounded more than a thousand people.
The Lebanese Red Cross has activated all ambulance stations to help the victims.
According to Prime Minister Netanyahu, the attacks are aimed at destroying Hezbollah’s weapons stockpiles.
Thousands have fled southern Lebanon, and roads leading to Beirut are blocked.
of Israel Monday’s attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 274 people and injured more than 1,000 people. Among them are women, children and rescue workers, according to the Lebanese health minister, according to the news agency AFP.
Lebanese Red Cross tellsthat all the country’s ambulance stations have been activated in order to help the constantly accumulating victims in the south. Most of the attacks have been carried out in the southern parts of Lebanon.
It is the bloodiest day in the conflict, which escalated at the start of the Gaza war.
According to Israel, the goal of the demolition is to destroy Hezbollah’s weapons stockpiles. Prime minister of the country Benjamin Netanyahu says the military would have succeeded in destroying thousands of missiles and rockets.
Blows have caused not only massive destruction but also panic.
Especially in southern Lebanon, near the Israeli border, thousands have fled the attacks. Because of people fleeing, the roads leading to the capital Beirut are blocked, tells Qatari media Al-Jazeera.
Across the country, schools have closed their doors and are preparing to receive refugees arriving from southern Lebanon.
American newspaper The New York Times by fear also spreads in Beirut. People have taken their children home from school, as there is a fear that Israel might target the Lebanese capital next.
Lebanese director of telecom operator Ogero Imad Kreidieh told the Reuters news agency that 80,000 calls are suspected to have arrived in Lebanon from Israel, urging people to evacuate.
According to him, the purpose of such calls is “psychological warfare and spreading chaos”. The Lebanese Minister of Information has been on the same lines Ziad Makary.
Evacuation calls have come as far as the capital, Beirut.
Israel has said it still plans to expand its strikes into Lebanon.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari Israel is preparing for a “large-scale strike in the Bekaa Valley,” reports an Arabic-language news channel Al-Arabiya. The Bekaa Valley is located in the northeastern part of Lebanon.
“Hezbollah stores its strategic weapons in civilian buildings and uses residents as human shields,” Hagari continued.
According to Hagar, Israel intends to destroy the weapons before they can be used against its residents. He urges people to stay away from targets it could strike.
However, the British broadcasting company BBC
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that the civilians were not given instructions on where exactly they could flee or whether attacks were planned on the village they were living in.
Rocket– and artillery strikes have been almost daily on the border between Israel and Lebanon for almost a year. Tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border have had to leave their homes.
Hezbollah has said it would immediately end operations against Israel if a cease-fire was reached in Gaza.
The Shiite Islamist organization Hezbollah receives its support from Iran. The situation, which has become extremely tense in recent days, has raised the fear of a great war in the Middle East.
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